 | 1831 - Liczba stron: 626
...distinctness from the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar, a distance of V.')O feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus...peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed.1 ' Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - Liczba stron: 620
...discovered accidentally,) till at length one listener, having had his curiosity somewhat overgratifiecl by hearing his wife's avowal of her own infidelity,...generally known, and the confessional was removed. * 4 Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai Strait in Wales, close to one of the main piers,... | |
 | 1832 - Liczba stron: 428
...other trouble than to pour out a common tumbler full of water, and put in the same quantity of fresh. REMARKABLE ECHOES. — In the cathedral of Girgenti,...avowal of her own infidelity, this telltale peculiarity becamegenerally known and the confessional was removed. Beneath the Suspension Bridge across the Menai... | |
 | 1836 - Liczba stron: 306
...Incidence and Reflection. An echo on the north side of Shipley Church, in Sussex, repeats 21 syllables. In the Cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily, the slightest...generally known, and the confessional was removed. In the Whispering Gallery of St. Paul's, London, the faintest sound is faithfully conveyed from one... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - Liczba stron: 538
...scandal of the people, by the resort of the curious to the opposite point, (which seems to have becn discovered accidentally,) till at length, one listener...wife's avowal of her own infidelity, this tell-tale peeuliarity beeame generally known, and the confessional was removed. In the whispering-gallery of... | |
 | George Dennis - 1864 - Liczba stron: 828
...resort of the curious to the opposite, point iwhich seems to have been discovered accidentally), until at length, one listener having had his curiosity somewhat...generally known, and the confessional was removed." — Uemchel on Sound. In the Socrinty am shown a very rich chalice ; two ostensoirs with a profusion... | |
 | World - 1868 - Liczba stron: 528
...the opposite point (which seems to have been discovered accidentally), till at length one listener had his curiosity somewhat over-gratified by hearing his wife's avowal of her own infidelity, when the tell-tale peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed. In the whispering... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - Liczba stron: 876
...western door to the cornice behind the high altar, — a distance of two hundred and fifty feet. I5y a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence...generally known, and the confessional was removed. In the whispering-gallery of St. Paul's, London, the faintest sound is faithfully conveyed from one... | |
 | World - 1874 - Liczba stron: 452
...the opposite point (which seems to have been discovered accidentally), till at length one listener had his curiosity somewhat over-gratified by hearing his wife's avowal of her own infidelity, when the tell-tale peculiarity became generally known, and the confessional was removed. In the whispering... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - Liczba stron: 868
...the great western door to the cornice behind the high altar, — a distance of two hundred and fifty feet. By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus...generally known, and the confessional was removed. In the whispering-gallery of St. Paul's, London, the faintest sound is faithfully conveyed from one... | |
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By a most unlucky coincidence, the precise focus of divergence at the former station was chosen for the place' of the confessional. Secrets never intended for the public ear thus became known, to the dismay of the confessors, and the scandal of the people,... 
